Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Saint Augustine

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

William Graham Sumner

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

William Hazlitt

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

Marcel Proust

There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.

Kenneth Grahame

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

Laurence Sterne

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Vices are simply overworked virtues ...

Epictetus

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

Linda Casey

I think it speaks to the convenience of convenience stores.

Jim Glassman

He does speak more like a professor. He's a straight shooter.

Woody Guthrie

There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.

Woody Allen

Every hooker I ever speak to tells me that it beats the hell out of waitressing.

William Morris

Speak but one word to me.

Sarah Palin

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

Ryan Reynolds

I can't say I've ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that's what keeps me going, and that's a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself.

Sandra Lee

My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society.

Sandra Cisneros

Don't be afraid to say what you don't know, and speak for what you do know. Say, "I can't speak for all Latinas, but I can speak for me and tell you very, very honestly."

Tracey Schmitt

Harry Reid's accusation that President Bush is playing politics with national security may earn him the title of hypocrite-in-chief.

Andrew Gowers

There is an accusation of a rise of companies sitting defensively on patents. There are patent thickets, which are a complex web of patents which may stunt invention and discourage research and development.

Alfred Adler

There is always this element of concealed accusation in neurosis, the patient feeling as though he were deprived of his right-that is, of the center of attention - and wanting to fix the responsibility and blame upon someone.

Thomas Clayton

I obviously shouldn't have left the scene, but the accusation of the aggravated battery, in my opinion, was inaccurate.

Hilary Clinton

I have never said anything like that, ever. I have in the past certainly, you know maybe, called somebody a name. But I have never used an ethnic, racial, anti-Semitic, bigoted, discriminatory, prejudiced, accusation against anybody. I've never done it. I've never thought it.

Spence Jackson

That is a ridiculous accusation by an irate landlord who is obviously upset that his ride on the gravy train is coming to an end.

Margaret Thatcher

Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]

Philip Massinger

Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.

Ziad Asali

Abbas is someone who is in a difficult situation. But he is looking to dispel the accusation that he is weak, and to show that he has a good understanding and analysis of his circumstances.